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Los Angeles: Will Smith's new action drama 'Focus' booted the kinky sex tale 'Fifty Shades of Grey' for its perch atop U.S. and Canadian weekend box office charts, racking up $19.1 million in ticket sales.
Smith, in his first leading role since 2013's "After Earth," plays a seasoned con artist who...

Los Angeles: The heat on 'Fifty Shades of Grey's' blockbuster debut cooled ever so slightly as the final four-day weekend numbers were revealed on Tuesday. The R-rated movie, which cost only $40 million to produce, took in $93 million from 3,646 locations across the long President's Day holiday.
Although initial estimates...

Lars Andersen, expert archer is determined to reinvent archery. What we see today in sports is supposedly poles apart from what archery was like in the olden days. It was a more dynamic activity and had much more to it than what we see in Hollywood movies. Lars has studied...

New Delhi: Neha Marda was first seen in the serial 'Balika Vadhu', a serial which received a lot of appreciation for its subject of child marriage. Neha appeared on the show as 'Gehna', the child bride of a middle-aged man who at first, under societal pressure, mistreats her, but as...

New Delhi: Delhi Police and other security agencies were making elaborate security arrangements for the visit of US President Barack Obama who would be the chief guest at the Republic Day parade here but security details would be finalised only after the arrival of a US advance team on January...

New York: Singer Harry Styles fueled rumors of a romance with Victoria's Secret model Nadine Leopold as they recently enjoyed night out together here.
Fans spotted them spending time together here for the second day in a row this week, reports dailymail.co.uk.
The 20-year-old and the Austrian model were seen together grabbing...

London: 'Maroon 5' frontman Adam Levine says he wants to have 17 babies with his Victoria Secret's model wife Behati Prinsloo.
The 35-year-old singer, however, said he is not planning to have children any time soon, reported E! Online. "Yeah, we're gonna do it at some point in the not-so-distant-slash-undisclosed-slash-I-really-have-no-idea-big-question-mark future....

New York: Singer Ariana Grande was spotted blowing kisses at her fans as she sashayed through the JFK Airport here.
The 21-year-old star was spotted strolling through the airport on Friday in a white crop top as she made her way to perform for the Victoria's Secret show, reports mirror.co.uk.
Grande completed...

London: Singer Ariana Grande was reportedly the 'natural choice' for the annual Victoria's Secret Fashion Show.
The 21-year-old has reportedly been confirmed as a performer for the annual lingerie fashion show which will take place at the Earl's Court Exhibition Centre here Dec 2.
She was the first choice of the organisers...

New York: An Indian engineer has been sentenced to 18 months in prison and ordered to pay thousands of dollars in restitution for stealing trade secrets from two global medical technology firms based in New Jersey here.
Ketankumar Maniar, 38, a former New Jersey resident had previously pleaded guilty before US...

London: The Islamic State (ISIS) terror group plans to seize Iran's nuclear secrets, unleash a vicious campaign of ethnic cleansing and Nazi-style eugenics to consolidate and expand its self-declared caliphate, according to a seized policy manifesto of the dreaded outfit.
The group urged its members to plan for war with Iran...

Washington: The US Secret Service director resigned, paying the price for a string of security lapses by the elite presidential protection branch, including one in which an armed intruder ran into the White House.
Julia Pierson stepped down yesterday a day after enduring a withering public grilling by lawmakers, who pronounced...

Washington: US President Barack Obama has exuded confidence in the ability of the Secret Service to protect the First Family in the wake of two intrusions at the White House that raised concern over its security.
"The Secret Service does a great job, and I'm grateful for the sacrifices that...

Washington: Much of the White House was evacuated on Friday after someone jumped over the fence and ran toward the executive mansion, minutes after President Barack Obama had departed.
Video from the scene showed a man making it most of the way across the North Lawn and approaching the main entrance...

Parents who are tired of their children clicking selfies all the time, this father may have a way to curb the habit: by making a secret video of your child while he/she is busy taking a selfie to their embarrassment later!
The father, Rod Beckham, saw his daughter holding her own...

Mumbai: Actor Ranveer Singh, the brand ambassador for Ching's Secret, has belted out 'Manchow Rap' in a music video to promote the brand that produces a wide range of Chinese food ingredients.
Ranveer, who has crooned for his film 'Ladies Vs Ricky Bahl' in the past, has now written and crooned...

Washington: A toddler squeezed through the White House fence, resulting in lock down of the residence of US President Barack Obama and a brief commotion among the Secret Service agents.
The incident occurred on Thursday at around 8 pm (local time) when the toddler got away from his parents, squeezed...

San Diego: Colin Firth is a "gentleman spy" with a killer umbrella and Samuel L. Jackson is a bloodhating villain with a lisp in Fox's forthcoming 'Kingsman: The Secret Service.'
The two actors were joined by fellow cast members and the film's writer Friday at ComicCon to present an early look...

Karachi: They have lost parents, brothers and friends in an unprecedented wave of religious violence. Despite pleas against retaliation, the anger of Pakistan's minority Shiite Muslims towards Sunnis has only grown.
Growing violence between the two sides threatens a dangerous and destabilising escalation of the nucleararmed state's underground sectarian conflict.
In the...

US Secret Service personnel sprang into action Friday outside the White House when a man stripped naked in what appeared to be a bizarre form of protest.
On one of the hottest days of the year so far in the US capital, where temperatures hit at least 26 degrees Celsius (78...

London: Now chat with your girlfriend and the world won't come to know. Billed as "Twitter without usernames", the anonymous messaging app called 'Secret' is now available to users worldwide on Android phones.
The app lets users share short text and image posts to friends completely anonymously, its developers announced.
Your secrets...

London: British comic author Sue Townsend, the creator of teenage angst-ridden 'Adrian Mole', has died after suffering a stroke. She was 68.
Penguin Books confirmed on Friday that Townsend died in Leicester, central England, a day earlier.
Born in Leicester, Townsend left school at 15, married at 18, and by 23 was...

London: Two pieces of original artwork from the covers of J K Rowling's Harry Potter books are set to go under the hammer.
The watercolours, painted by artist Cliff Wright, are featured on the second and third instalments of the book series, reported Contactmusic.
One of pieces, which was featured on the...

Bangalore: A former employee of Microsoft Corp is facing criminal charges after he allegedly passed trade secrets to a blogger in France, US court documents showed.
Russian national Alex Kibkalo, a former Microsoft employee in Lebanon and Russia, admitted to Microsoft investigators that he provided confidential company documents and information to...

After a year long wait and pondering on various permutations and combinations about what will happen to the characters after finishing the third book (Best Kept Secret) in The Clifton Chronicles series, I laid my hands on 'Be Careful What You Wish For' as soon as it got released worldwide....

Bhubaneswar: BJP on Friday alleged the results of Rajya Sabha elections in Odisha exposed a "secret understanding" between BJD and the Congress and sought an apology from Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik for the humiliating defeat of Padma Vibhusan Raghunath Mohapatra in the biennial polls.
"The Rajya Sabha elections have exposed the...

Former US spy agency contractor Edward Snowden has more secrets to reveal that relate to Israel, the journalist who first brought his leaks to the world's attention said on Monday.
Among allegations aired by Snowden last year were that the US National Security Agency and its British counterpart GCHQ had in...